Sessa – Estrela Acesa (2022) [FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Sergio Sayeg (aka Sessa) has always been entranced by what he calls “the mess” of music: the accidental, tortuous nature of it, a path on which musicians and audiences alike can attain a higher purpose. A love supreme, if you will. While Sessa’s 2019 debut Grandeza explored the corporeal pleasures and gentle drunkenness of being in love, his new album, Estrela Acesa (which translates as Burning Star), gazes up to the heavens and ponders love both sensuous and spiritual, in the throes of its resultant hangover.

São Paulo-born, at-home-everywhere, Sessa conceived of his new album as a bridge to connect the earthy and astral realms of music: “Estrela Acesa comes to remind people of how music grounds our existence in a meaningful way, with its potential to give roots to the divine in a modern world lacking in symbolic weight,” Sessa says. “Connections with the cosmos, gods, nature… in many cultures that means a relationship with music. I think life can be fulfilling and meaningful and music is one of those experiences.”

Sensuous joy courses through the twelve songs of Estrela Acesa. It is evident in the title itself, but also in the seductive sway and hushed poetry of Sessa’s music. It’s all right there in the concise two minutes of “Gostar do Mundo” (Taste for the World), the opening number. “I felt like I was watching behind.Could this be a hidden Brazilian masterpiece from the 70s? This album is enjoying great success, lazing on sunny beaches alongside Caetano Veloso’s Muito and Arthur Verocai’s first album. With his brown curls and sweet summer of love look, Sessa even looks like Veloso back in the early 70s. And yet, the album and its singer are very much from the modern day. Sessa grew up in Brazil before living in New York and it was back in São Paulo, during the pandemic, that he recorded this second album. The impact of quarantine on the music is tangible, particularly in the title track ’Estrela acesa’. No electronic instruments are used here, indeed, there is no sign of the contemporary world whatsoever. Sessa sounds isolated in time, recreating the magic of 60s tropicalism where Brazilian music, bossa and samba freely mingled with pop, folk, jazz, and symphonic orchestrations. All this and more can be tasted in this album, all wrapped up in Sessa’s classical guitar and silky voice and orchestrated with luxurious instruments. The kinds of tracks you could imagine him playing alone in his room. Lifted by the sound of flutes and ethereal female vocals, the songs are hypnotic. Estrela acesa is the work of an alchemist, a magician who flawlessly achieves the ultimate fantasy: Leonard Cohen and his backing singers joining forces with Baden Powell’s afro-sambas. – Stéphane Deschamps

Tracklist:

1-01. Sessa – Gostar do Mundo (02:21)
1-02. Sessa – Canção da Cura (02:35)
1-03. Sessa – Sereia Sentimental (03:11)
1-04. Sessa – Música (02:40)
1-05. Sessa – Helena (04:06)
1-06. Sessa – Pele da Esfera (02:48)
1-07. Sessa – Dor Fodida (04:40)
1-08. Sessa – Irmão de Nuvem (03:18)
1-09. Sessa – Que Lado Você Dorme? (04:07)
1-10. Sessa – Ponta de Faca (02:54)
1-11. Sessa – Você É a Música (01:31)
1-12. Sessa – Estrela Acesa (04:19)

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